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John le carré, with a son’s help, comes back in from the cold war.
Nick Harkaway’s novel “Karla’s Choice” revisits the British spy George Smiley a few years after the construction of the Berlin Wall.
By Michael Wood
How the Writer André Aciman Learned to Live in Exile
When he was a teenager, Aciman’s family was turned out of Egypt and landed in Italy. In a beguiling new memoir, “Roman Year,” he revisits a lost era.
By Leah Greenblatt
Bethany Joy Lenz Wanted Community. She Ended Up in a Cult.
The “One Tree Hill” actor has written a memoir of the decade she spent beholden to the Big House Family — and her escape.
By Fran Hoepfner
How Aleksei Navalny’s Prison Diaries Got Published
In his posthumous memoir, compiled with help from his widow, Yulia Navalnaya, Navalny faced the fact that Vladimir Putin might succeed in silencing him. The book will keep “his legacy alive,” Navalnaya said.
By Alexandra Alter
Can You Find These 14 Hidden Book Titles in This Puzzle?
Look closely to uncover the recent memoirs lurking in this passage of text.
By J. D. Biersdorfer
What Do Animals Know About Death?
“Playing Possum,” a new book by the philosopher Susana Monsó, explores the mysteries of grief and mourning in the animal world.
By Jennifer Szalai
In His Memoir, Aleksei Navalny Speaks From the Grave
The Russian opposition leader, who died in an Arctic penal colony earlier this year, tells the story of his struggle to wrest his country back from President Vladimir Putin.
By David Kortava
5 Books to Help You Understand the Economy Before Voting
The brightest minds explore the issue at every level, from the levers that control inflation to the best way to achieve work-life balance.
By Jason Furman
The Gadfly Journalist Who Punched Far Above His Weight
With a weekly newsletter and plenty of charm, the left-wing writer Claud Cockburn became a crucial polemical voice of the 20th century.
By Dwight Garner
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Hollywood Can Be Hell for a Writer. 2 New Books Fan the Flames.
Dorothy Parker worked on the script for “A Star Is Born,” but the tragic ending was all hers, while Bruce Eric Kaplan manages to find the mordant laughs in today’s industry foibles.
By Alexandra Jacobs
Why Us vs. Them Is Not Such a Bad Way to See the World
Two new books by psychologists explore the roots of group identity, arguing that it is natural and potentially useful — even in polarized times.
Randy Newman Is Great. He Deserved a Better Biography Than This.
A biography of the singer behind “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” and “Short People” considers a complicated man with a satirical edge.
Gustavo Gutiérrez, Father of Liberation Theology, Dies at 96
Once considered revolutionary, his notion of empathy and advocacy for the poor has become a central tenet of Catholic social teaching.
By Bill Friskics-Warren
A Devastating Dutch Love Story, in the Shadow of Anne Frank
In Yael van der Wouden’s debut novel, “The Safekeep,” the writer spins an erotic thriller out of the Netherlands’ failure to face up to the horrors of the Holocaust.
By Nina Siegal
In Michigan, a Queer Retreat With Dancing in the Woods
The editor Ryan Fitzgibbon invited collaborators to toast “A Great Gay Book,” a new collection of pieces from his influential, now-defunct magazine, Hello Mr.
By Juan A. Ramírez
Yehuda Bauer, 98, Scholar Who Saw Jewish Resistance in Holocaust, Dies
A leading historian of antisemitism, he countered the prevailing narrative of Jewish victimhood and later pushed back against efforts to diminish the Holocaust’s significance.
By Clay Risen
New York’s Old Guard Meets a Sexy Newcomer
The literary establishment welcomes Feeld, a very sex-positive dating app, at a party on the Upper East Side.
By Alex Vadukul
By J. D. Biersdorfer
By Leah Greenblatt
By Jason Furman
An Exile Revisits the Squalor and Grandeur of 1960s Italy
Recounting the time his family spent in a former Italian brothel, André Aciman’s new memoir, “Roman Year,” picks up where 1994’s “Out of Egypt” left off.
By Aminatta Forna
By David Kortava
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